This document is a scan of a letter obtained via eBay, written from Chateau Bois l'eveque, Near Liege, Belgium by Henrietta Hungerford Offley Crewe (EN584) Lady Houghton to Emma Phipps, Bath. It is dated 15 Nov 1835 and was mailed 16 Nov 1935 at Liege CDS on front of the envelope. London November 19 transit backstamp. No Bath backstamp. This cross-written letter has been transcribed and placed here in the Library.
Email about this item received 10 Jul 2020 by thffi@outlook.com:
Sally-Anne Shearn <sally-anne.shearn@york.ac.uk>
Fri 7/10/2020 4:24 AM
Hi,
Yesterday I came across a mention of a letter you hold, said to be by Hungerford Crewe (https://thffi.org/library/show-item/6034?categoryId=12). I joined your Foundation to access the scanned copy and was thrilled to discover it was in fact a letter written by Henrietta Crewe, the subject of my ongoing research. In my day job I am an Archivist at the Borthwick Institute in York where we hold a small collection of correspondence belonging to Henrietta's sister Annabella Crewe, later Lady Houghton, including several hundred letters exchanged between Annabel and Henrietta. I was asked to list this correspondence several years ago and since then have continued to transcribe the letters and research and publish on the Crewe siblings in my own time, with my research focusing in particular on Henrietta.
Although I regularly scour record offices, ebay and other antiquarian shops for Crewe related items I somehow completely missed the sale of this letter so am extremely grateful that you made a scan of it available online. I have gone down many rabbit holes in search of additional letters by Henrietta (who was clearly a busy correspondent) but this is the first letter I have found by Henrietta to one of her friends (Emma Phipps, a fellow Catholic who is mentioned in numerous letters to Annabel).
I have transcribed the letter this morning for my research but was wondering if you had any further information regarding the sale. Was it sold alone or as part of a group of letters and did the seller have any other items available or provide any information about where the letter came from? If I could track down additional letters to Emma or any of Henrietta's friends it would really be an enormous help to my research.
Thank you for any help you can give me.
Best wishes,
Sally-Anne Shearn
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Dr Sally-Anne Shearn
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Borthwick Institute for Archives
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Submitted by Richard Hungerford at 10:24 AM on June 2, 2020.